Justin Verrier

I feel like we've gone back and forth with this where it's like a lot.

I think a lot of people were vocal about all the transaction game is kind of taking over the actual game.

We need to be watching the game as opposed to dealing with Woj bombs all the time.

I honestly think we've kind of settled in a nice little middle ground there with this year.

But at the very least, the league values this.

And it honestly kind of undercuts this whole idea as kind of nonsense theater or perhaps even like scripted to the point where Giannis is suggesting that like maybe this wasn't even real.

And I do think like we're talking about the integrity of the league.

That's kind of like the big headline of all these conversations.

Like I think it kind of undercuts that as well.

Like we probably know that a lot of this stuff is a little bit more for show than it actually is.

If you're on the inside of these things, a lot of things are trumpeted up in order to make ESPN segments first and foremost.

Yeah.

But like to say that like this all leading up to it, the months of podcasts and talking about the league and ramifications might not be real is fucked up.

Like I think Giannis more than us has a duty to at the very least sell that this is like an actual thing happening, like that the integrity of the league matters.

Just the fact that we've kind of undergone a pretty massive wave of soft tissue strains and whatnot.

I mean, there are a lot of good players, but as we're just looking at this, the Thunder aren't playing Shea because he's out.

Jokic was just out.

I think we're going to get to a pretty dire point where if Shea doesn't qualify for the MVP, that Jokic might not as well.

Who the fuck do we give the MVP to?

Because of another arbitrary rule where we just set a benchmark and all of a sudden we can't go over that even though